The Mission in Sierra Leone was founded in December 2007, after His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore II gave his blessing to the then Archimandrite Fr. Themistocles Adamopoulos to minister to a nation in pain, the much suffering nation of Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone had never seen Orthodoxy before. That was the first attempt to evangelize and…
Dear Friends of Mission, I would like to talk to you about the Orthodox Mission in the wounded country of Sierra Leone. Across the country there is still a profound grief since this blood-stained land has been suffering for the last 25 years. One disaster after another. This great event began with a barbaric civil…
In 1807, when the English were forced to stop slave trade after the international community’s disapproval, the ships that had already set off for the new continent returned back and freed the captive slaves, who had now gained their freedom…
His Eminence visited the largest slum in the centre of the capital of Sierra Leone, where more than 20 thousand adults and children have found shelter, living in deplorable conditions, without water, electricity and access to human sanitation, and at risk of drowning in the rainy season from the large water streams or being killed by landslides…
Many were our impressions and experiences. We experienced the miracle of the birth of a Church. We saw how the Grace of God, without the human material means used by other denominations, draws souls to the only true Church, Orthodoxy, overcomes all obstacles and opens ways to spread the Gospel…
I watched how young and old were killing themselves for a plate of food or the clothes they were taking, and I couldn’t stand it. So I ask all readers to say just one Lord have mercy on this people…
Recently, the President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Koroma, declared that this West African state has overcome the epidemic of Ebola. For all of us who live in Sierra Leone and went through this nightmare of a deadly epidemic that in 2014-2015 claimed thousands of lives, this is wonderful and very comforting news…
We are in one of the poorest nations on the planet, recovering from a long and barbaric civil war, a deadly Ebola epidemic and devastating floods. Therefore, the obligation to feed the poor becomes an imperative in the practical theology of our mission…
Since the day Ebola knocked on West Africa’s door, the few airlines flying to the country have greatly reduced their flights. Others thought it best to stop flying to West Africa altogether, either because cabin crews refused to put themselves at risk of the epidemic, or because demand had fallen, or because they feared they…
Before leaving for Sierra Leone I filled my overweight luggage with icons, crosses, books, toothpaste, school supplies, balloons and the bread my mother had brewed for the Mass…
